Desire Quotes

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

~ Francis Of Assisi

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

~ Nellie Bly

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

~ Ravi Zacharias

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

~ Will Durant

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

~ Maria Mitchell

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

~ Michel De Montaigne

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

~ Vivek Wadhwa

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

~ Laurence Sterne

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

~ C. S. Lewis

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

~ Salman Rushdie

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

~ Gore Vidal

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

~ Thomas Carlyle

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

~ Dean Koontz

I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

~ Rachel Mcadams

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

~ Ivan Turgenev

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

~ Mark Batterson

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

~ Maggie Gallagher

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

~ Helen Fisher

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

~ Zig Ziglar

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

~ Janine Turner

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

~ Daniel Burnham

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

~ Harold Ramis

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

~ Mason Cooley

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

~ Carl Andre

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

~ Ayn Rand

Always desire to learn something useful.

~ Sophocles

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

~ Alexander Hamilton

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

~ Taylor Caldwell

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'

~ Ruth Rendell

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

~ Simon Mainwaring

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

~ Sylvester Stallone

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

~ Milton Glaser

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

~ Napoleon Hill

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

~ Walter Scott